Feds OK $6 Billion Solar Plant In Mojave Desert

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is set to announce approval of a thousand-megawatt solar project on federal land in southern California, the largest in a series of solar projects given the go-ahead in recent weeks.

The Interior Department has approved a permit for what will be the world’s biggest solar power plant, on federal land in the desert near Blythe, Calif., 225 miles east of Los Angeles, according to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.

The $6 billion project is being developed by Solar Millennium, a German solar developer. At peak output, the solar farm could generate enough clean electricity to power more than 300,000 homes, according to project developers.

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Seems it would have been better to have an American Company do the job so more of our unemployed would have the work. Not a foreign company even if it’s an Nato nation..Just like BP in the Gulf.
I guess it’s going to be counted as one of his new jobs created projects.

in general something reflective will push photons back to space- making things cooler – rather than them being absorbed into say a black roof creating heat that sits there. Solar panels are becoming increasingly less reflective as the more photons that can be absorbed at every angle (not a simple task as the sun moves) is better. In general – they dont WANT the panels to be reflective.